Oh, I don't think any self-respecting gremlin or poltergeist would co-operate in such a stratagem, do you, Eliza? And how would you communicate to it that this particular gold ballpoint was the one that was to be the object of the experiment, and not that copy of the Yellow Pages that BT delivered last week? I honestly can't quite see how one would set it up, bearing in mind how many things one puts in how many places in the course of any day.

~M~